After last week’s rough performance, Tom Allen set clear expectations for his Indiana football team this week. The Hoosiers got to 2-2 with a win over Akron, but they were outplayed by an inferior MAC team. After that quadruple-overtime escape, Allen expressed disappointment in the focus his team showed in the week leading up to the game. He felt his team was not properly respecting its opponent. And so Allen, at Monday’s press conference, said he expected much stronger focus in practice this week as IU gets ready to take on Maryland. “What I expect is a very highly focused,…
Author: Seth Tow
Indiana women’s basketball saw its historic 2022-23 season end in heartbreak, with a bitterly narrow home loss to Miami in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers were a No. 1 seed for the first time in program history, but fell short of reaching a third consecutive Sweet 16. And as the program gears up to avenge that disappointment and defend its Big Ten title, the players haven’t forgotten that feeling. Senior guard Sydney Parrish, at IU’s media day, said she’s still not over it, and is using the sour memory as fuel for the upcoming season. Graduate…
After a win that felt more like a loss, Indiana’s offense has to figure out what it really is. Between dropped passes, unspotted open receivers, bad play-calling, and letdowns in big moments, the 29-27 final score masked a poor showing by IU’s offense. The Hoosiers were significantly out-gained (474-282) by an Akron team with the third-worst total offense in FBS entering the game. IU head coach Tom Allen spent Sunday reviewing game film with his staff, meeting with the team, and diagnosing some of the problems that arose on Saturday. “Without question, didn’t play to our standard,” Allen said at…
As Indiana football progressed through fall camp, special teams coordinator Kasey Teegardin brought Chris Freeman in for a meeting. Freeman had a bad day of practice, and Teegardin thought that was a good time to review his performance to that point. He slid a spreadsheet printout across the table to his kicker, showing every kick he’d attempted during preseason, with distances, hash-mark locations, and results. Teegardin asked Freeman what he observed from the chart. Freeman said he was missing too much from the left hash. That wasn’t what Teegardin was getting at. He told the redshirt sophomore he was converting…
Indiana women’s basketball has its complete schedule for 2023-24. The Big Ten released its women’s basketball conference schedules for the coming season on Thursday afternoon. So the Hoosiers now know the gauntlet they’ll have to run to defend their first Big Ten title in 40 years. Here are six thoughts on Indiana’s schedule. The Big Ten schedule typically has two conference games in early December, one home and one away, with the rest of the slate resuming in late December or early January. But this year, the women’s basketball schedules contain just one Big Ten game in that early December…
As the Big Ten released its 2023-24 men’s basketball conference schedules on Tuesday, IU learned what its complete schedule will look like for the upcoming season. The conference had previously announced every team’s slate of opponents, so the Hoosiers already knew which teams they’d see once and which they’d see twice this year. But now there’s a full order of play. Here are six quick thoughts on the slate. It’s tough to pick out a part of the schedule that’s overwhelmingly tough. The hardest string of consecutive opponents looks like the end of January, when IU hosts Purdue, then plays…
IU head coach Tom Allen, co-defensive coordinator Matt Guerrieri, and select players met with local media on Monday to look back on the Louisville game and start looking ahead to Akron and beyond. Here are a few key things discussed. Note: Offensive coordinator Walt Bell is also usually at IU’s weekly press conferences, but he was absent Monday as he and his wife welcomed their third child. Defensive breakdowns Indiana’s defense had a rocky first half against Louisville, with some big plays allowed in the secondary proving to be the difference in the game. Young defensive backs Jamari Sharpe and…
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s game against Louisville was always going to be a barometer game. After a season-opener against a College Football Playoff contender, and an FCS opponent in week two, this was IU’s first matchup of the season against a team around the caliber it can reasonably aspire to. It didn’t go IU’s way, as the Cardinals left Lucas Oil Stadium with a 21-14 win. The Hoosiers seemed destined for a blowout loss in the first half, and then an impressive comeback in the second half. The end result was something in between. They have plenty to feel both good…
Despite a nickname suggesting otherwise, Louis Moore’s journey from Mesquite, Texas to IU football has not always been sweet. Poteet High School coaches dubbed him “Sweet Lou” because of how smooth he looked on the field, both in practices and games. Then-defensive coordinator Rodney McLain recalled a clutch over-the-shoulder, toe-tap catch Moore made by the sideline during a senior year game at McKinney North, and called it a “Sunday type of catch.” Safeties coach Anthony Byrd said the way Moore flew around the field, whether at wide receiver or defensive back, made coaches swoon. “He would be running past people,…
Even before taking the field on Saturday, this has already been a big week for Indiana football. At the program’s weekly Monday press conference, head coach Tom Allen announced that redshirt freshman Tayven Jackson will be IU’s starting quarterback going forward. He and redshirt freshman Brendan Sorsby had been battling for the job going back to spring camp, and the competition extended through Indiana’s first two games. So it will be Jackson leading the Hoosiers out on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium this weekend against Louisville. Allen, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Walt Bell, co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach…